The paper aims at elaborating upon the reasons for the lasting public enthusiasm for Philip K. Dick sci-fi prose. It is claimed to relate not only to extremely successful film-versions of his books, but, even more so, to the highly topical message of his. In his dis-topian text Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), Philip K. Dick manages to put into focus the whole range of issues currently associated with posthumanism. Analyzed against the background of three possible post-anthropocentric scenarios of subjectivity transformation delineated by R. Braidotti, the cluster of issues raised by Dick includes environmental problems caused by human activities, interplanet colonization escalating the conflicts of inclusion/exclusion, human/animal relations overlapping with the hybrid-ization of natural and artificial, critical problems of future technological posthumanism manifesting themselves in highly problematic distinction between the humans and an-droids and in questioning the onto-ethical status of the humans.
Translated title of the contributionTHE FANTASY WORLDS OF PHILIP K. DICK
Original languageRussian
Title of host publication Парадигмы переходности и образы фантастического мира в художественном пространстве XIX–ХХI вв
Subtitle of host publicationколлективная монография
Place of PublicationНижний Новгород
PublisherИздательство Нижегородского государственного университета им. Н.И. Лобачевского
Pages227-233
ISBN (Print)978-5-91326-477-0
StatePublished - 2019
EventНациональные коды в языке и литературе - Нижний Новгород
Duration: 31 Oct 20192 Nov 2019

Conference

ConferenceНациональные коды в языке и литературе
CityНижний Новгород
Period31/10/192/11/19

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